Example sentences of "[noun] so hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over . |
| 2 | When she opened her mouth to yell , a hand caught her face , pinching into the angle of the jaw so hard that the cry died in her throat . |
| 3 | Harry clenched his teeth so hard that the stem of his clay pipe broke , and he had to spit the bits into the hearth . |
| 4 | She proved immune to my lightheaded but rather leaden gallantries , the words so hard to shift around . |
| 5 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 6 | The rain began just before dawn , striking the roof so hard that he woke , startled , from a fast sleep which had been hard won . |
| 7 | She had quite literally thrown herself at him , she had bitten him in the neck so hard that he had bled , she had scratched his face and torn his clothes . |
| 8 | He clenched the steering wheel so hard that the car wobbled , and he hastily righted it . |
| 9 | The bare hills behind Agadir in the west are built of blue limestones so hard that they ring under the fossil-hunter 's hammer . |
| 10 | Progress is being made by scientists in understanding both what causes the pleasure of drugs and what makes the pleasure so hard to give up ( see page 123 ) . |
| 11 | Roots had split the ground in places , and the thickest of these jarred the Toyota so hard that Diane had an uneasy vision of the entire truck falling apart as every spot-weld gave at once , leaving her sitting in the driver 's seat with the steering wheel in her hands and nothing but open air all around . |
| 12 | I hit my pillow so hard that it has looked reproachful ever since . ) |
| 13 | ‘ Kick me again , ’ said Georgiades , keeping his voice at the gentle , conversational level , ‘ and I will kick your balls so hard that they will fly out of your backside . ’ |
| 14 | They do n't know about frosts so hard that birds can fall dead from the sky . |
| 15 | Wild with fear , Constance opened her mouth and bit his nose so hard that it hurt her teeth . |
| 16 | But remedies involving , for example , an extra tax payable by each person in a household would at the moment be madness : many councils would be left struggling with exactly the enforcement difficulties that have made the poll tax so hard to set up and administer . |
| 17 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |
| 18 | Lenny Campion gripped the Bakelite microphone so hard that it began to hurt his hand . |
| 19 | The pistol was pressed against his cheek so hard that it almost broke the skin . |
| 20 | His heart was banging against his chest wall so hard that she could feel it thudding into her as well . |
| 21 | Barely registering Gwen 's horrified face , she turned and whirled out , crashing the back door against the wall so hard that the echoes seemed to follow her fleeing figure . |
| 22 | When you re at an all-boys school that is really important It s so hard to meet , let alone get off with , girls at an all-boys school . |
| 23 | Now , now , ’ said Lee , nearly shouting and banging his head against the shed so hard that the whole thing shook . |
| 24 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 25 | The back of her hand was pressed violently to her mouth , she dimly realised , and she was biting her knuckle so hard that she 'd almost drawn blood . |
| 26 | Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective . |
| 27 | At that moment Mr Sowerberry returned and , hearing what had happened ( according to the ladies ) , he beat Oliver so hard that even Mr Bumble and Mrs Sowerberry were satisfied . |
| 28 | She set down his drink so hard that it sloshed out of the glass . |
| 29 | Try not to tense the muscles so hard that you produce cramp or pain . |
| 30 | Then the Bonn government leaned on Germany 's aerospace industry chiefs so hard that they scrapped the whole event . |